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COMMENTARY: Amber Frey Alerts Us to a Collective Loss of Decency
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) No surprise here. Schadenfreude sells.
Amber Frey's book on her affair gone awry with Scott Peterson hit the top of every best-seller list in its first week of distribution. Frey cooperated with police to bring Peterson to justice when she was...
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COMMENTARY: When Darkness Seems to Close, Hope Surprises
c. 2004 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) It is semi-dark when we gather for worship in a church up North. Snow is falling, temperature plunging, the day not yet fully dawned.
Darkness might have eased its hold during the closing hymn, ``O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,'' a gentle tune com...
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NEWS FEATURE: Grande Dame of the Authentic Jewish Kitchen Serves Up New Recipes for Holidays
c. 2004 Religion News Service
MANCHESTER, N.H. _ When growing up, cookbook author Joan Nathan would go each year to her Aunt Lisl's house during Hanukkah to make butter cookies decorated with blue-colored sugar.
Today, Nathan, 61, has made Aunt Lisl's prized recipe _ and hundred...
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NEWS FEATURE: From Boxer to Sailor, Artist Finds New Ways to Paint Jesus
c. 2004 Religion News Service
ERLANGER, Ky. _ The congregation at the Erlanger Baptist Church listened in hushed silence as Stephen Sawyer gave his testimony about one of his portraits of Jesus holding a young boy that he painted at the request of the ill child's mother.
``When th...
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NEWS FEATURE: The Form of the Biblical Chiasm
c. 2004 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) When looking in the Bible for coded literary patterns called chiasms, you can learn from tight, clear examples. Take, for instance, Gospel of Mark chapter 11, verses 12, 13, 14 and the start of verse 15.
The first rule is: Don't let those nu...
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NEWS FEATURE: Opera Singer Denyce Graves Sparks `Songs of Soul’ CD Project
c. 2003 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) After opera singer Denyce Graves performed in Chicago a couple of years ago, a young fan asked her some questions. Did she grow up in church? Did she sing in the church choir?
The mezzo-soprano told him yes, an answer he fully expected. ``I...
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NEWS FEATURE: Fact Flirts With Fiction in `The Da Vinci Code’
c. 2003 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) What's the secret to ``The Da Vinci Code,'' the novel by Dan Brown that's been smiling down from fiction best-seller lists since it debuted in April?
No, it's not the inside joke behind the Mona Lisa's languid smile, or the redhead seated on...
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NEWS FEATURE: Artists Put Their Own Stamp on Christmas Music
c. 2003 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) From the Blind Boys of Alabama's soul to Andy Griffith's country to Relient K's rock, musical artists are putting their particular twist on this year's Christmas music.
Christian artists are featured on a number of recordings this holiday se...
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NEWS FEATURE: Opera Singer Denyce Graves Sparks `Songs of Soul’ CD Project
c. 2003 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) After opera singer Denyce Graves performed in Chicago a couple of years ago, a young fan asked her some questions. Did she grow up in church? Did she sing in the church choir?
The mezzo-soprano told him yes, an answer he fully expected. ``I...
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COMMENTARY: Faith, Like Radio Listening, Requires Effort
c. 2003 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, N.C.)
(UNDATED) Noon came last Sunday, and I tried to find a radio station broadcasting the Indianapolis 500.
I...
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